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The Sydney Opera House May Be Underwater Within 2000 Years
Intellectually, we all know that sea level rise is real — but it’s hard to imagine exactly how it will effect us in the long term. A new study does just that by calculating which UNESCO Heritage Sites are most at-risk for being submerged by the rising tides. The results are devastating.
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Mathematician Calculates How To Survive First 30 Minutes Of Nuclear War
We’re more than half a century past 1960, when the Doomsday Clock ticked down to two minutes before midnight. Yet, despite the steady outpouring of movies and TV shows featuring rogue nukes and dirty bombs, fewer and fewer people actively worry about a nuclear bomb going off. That being said: Do you know where and…
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The Smell Of Peanut Butter Could Diagnose Alzheimer’s
On the heels of the recent discovery that accelerometers could be used as indicators for Alzheimer’s disease comes yet another potential diagnostic tool, one that most of us already have in our pantries: peanut butter.
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Scientists Replicate A San Andreas Fault Quake In Upstate New York
You’d think that in this day in age of digital software, scientists wouldn’t need to destroy a real building to test the strength of its materials. But that’s exactly what’s happening this summer in Buffalo, where a team of Johns Hopkins engineers are using a hydraulic “shake table” to recreate the 1994 Northridge earthquake in…